The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-02-02
Weekly News Summary.


THE President has appointed Charles II.
Reynolds postmaster at Swanton.
THE Congregational church at Pittsford
has two hundred thirteen members.
EDWARD CASEY, young man in Rutland,
attempted suicide by cutting his throat.
The publisher of the Jericho Reporter adj
vertises to take red squirrels in payment for
subscriptions.
REV. S. LEWIS b. SPEARE has resigned
the passionate of the Congregational church
in Middlebury.
CHARLES, son of G. Yattaw, was accident
ally shot by Fred Il. Sanders at Vergennes,
and will probably die.
GENERAL WILLIAM WELLS resumed his
connection with the firm of Wells, Richard
son & Co., Burlington, on the 14th ult.
DIR. FOREST of New York, who graduated
from the University of Vermont in 1884, has
given $500 to that institution for eocution
prizes.
DR. l.. c. BUTLER of Essex has been
elected associate member of the Victoria
Institute, or Philosophical Society of Great
Britain.
CONGRESSMAN CIRCUIT has appointed iona
than A. Timkins of Albany to the cadet
ship at West Point which has been vacant
for a year or more.
ARTHUR KEZER of Fletcher was arrested
recently, charged with having cruelty beaten
his wife. He was taken to Fairfax and
placed under $500 bonds.
ASSISTANT EDITOR BUcKHAM of the Free
Press has decided to enter Johns Hopkins
University the coming season, where he will
take a three years course.
IT is reported that G.. j. Winship, the
constable and collector of the town of
Weston, has defaulted in the sum OF 5000,
for which his bondsmen will be held liable.
A YOUNG girl of East Pownal was over
come by the cold while returning from
school the other day. She was found I'M
conscious in snow-drift and was resusci-
tated with difficulty.
GEORGE f. MosELEY, a veteran express
messenger, will have been on the line from
Bellows Falls to Springfield, Mass, twenty
three years next month. The trip makes
him 600 miles a week.
REV. CEPHAs A. LEACH, who died in Mis-
souri, recently, was a native of Pittsford,
and was a graduate of Middlebury College
in the class of 1916 and of Andover Sem
mary in the class of 1852.
HIRAM ATKINS and Internal Revenue
Collector Spear gave "A dinner in Washing
ton to Governor Ormsbee of Vermont and
to Auditor Powell, to which several de-
partment officials were invited.
HENRY f. ROYCE, native of Woodstock,
has been made general superintendent of
the Rock Island railroad. He is fitty-tive
years Olu, anu DeSdn HIS TdllrOau career
when but nineteen as an ordinary laborer
A YOUNG woman started to walk from
Middlebury to Rochester the other night,
and while crossing the mountain between
RiptOn and Hancock stopped at a house to
warm. 1t was found that her hands and
feet were badly frozen.
EUsTIs O'CLARE, who, with Fred Bonn
bard and William Jerome, escaped from
Burlington Jail August last by attacking
hp wit al "a
in Canada Friday and brought to Burling-
ton, where he was lodged in Jail
REV. DR.. n. G. CLARK, secretary of the
American Board of Commissioners for
Foreign Missions, speaking at the Vermont
dinner in Boston, said that there are now
ten Vermonters in Turkey endeavoring to
establish Christianity in that empire.
AMONG the patents granted the past week
are the following to VermOnters: Charles
E. Hewett, Brandon, wear iron for wagons
Leonard ID. Howard, st. Johnsbury, machine
table; Patrick Ryan, Rutland, milli-straner;
David Eaton. Rochester, ladder-hook
GRAND ARMY DEPARTMENT COMMANDER
BLoDGETT of st. Johnsbury has appointed
Dennis e. MAY of st. Johnsbu assistant
acknowledgement, E. E. Greenleaf of Bur-
lington assistant acknowledgement and
Henry G.. Bates of st. Johnsbury judge
acknowledgement.
CHARLES BRADFORD of Manchester Cen
ter recently sent five ducks, including a
large black one to gentleman in Wadley
Falls, n. III. One morning he heard COM
motion among his fowls and on going to the
yard found the identical black duck, which
had flown back nearly 200 miles.
FOUR young lads of Essex, named Hanley,
Perrigo, Myers and Ladou, started Thurs
day morning for Texas, :" to join the cow
boys" They took their guns and baggage
and trudged off on foot. About six o'clock
the same evening they returned to their
homes hungrier sadder and, it is to be
hoped, wiser boys.
THERE was an ice-jam at Bolton in the
Winoosh river last week. and the intervals
were covered with water two feet deep over
the railroad track. The trains were not i'm
peded, but the lowlands and highways We're
piled with ice and some farm-houses were
completely isolated. The water was eight
feet deep in the highway
ED DEBAUND, a German, twenty three
years old and unmarried, was stealing a
ride ON a passenger train on the Connecti-
cut river railroad Friday evening. He
jumped from the rear end of the train while
crossing the bridge over the Connecticut
river, and fell a distance of seventy feet.
He struck on the ice and was instantly
killed.
o. S. ANNIs has been appointed post
master at Westfield, S. p Pinney at Green's
boro, L. NJ. Buchanan at Bloomington Cen
ter and William j. BiXby at East Orange.
The Office at South Peacham has been re-
established and Charles Mclaughlin APP
pointed postmaster. The request for the
establishment of the Office at Dummers-
ton has been refused.
THE following appointments were an
nounced Thursday: " Postal Clerk Duvall
on the route from st. Adams to Richford
has been promoted to the route from Swan
ton to Portland, succeeding Mr.. Frye. Mr.
Duvall is succeeded by William Tracy, al
present member of the Legislature from
the town of South Hero. Joshua Spear was
appointed postmaster at West Braintree, tC
succeed Maria Stems. One of the charges
against Miss Stems was that she did moi
like to have people spit upon the floor of the
post-office, which was primal right against
which the bourbons protested. - Washing
ton DiSpdtchF
STATE TREASURER DUBOIS is just about t.
make the second annual distribution to tn,
several towns in the state of the income arts
ing from the Huntington fund for the yea
1886. The amount to be distributed is S11,
$50, and the distribution is made on pc
capita basis, and the money can only b.
used by the several towns for the benefit o
their common schools. Thirteen towns il
the state receive more than one hundred
dollars each, as follows Rutland, $3.50
Burlington, $3.50; St. Adams, S242; Ben
nington, S2l3; Brattleboro, S197; St. Johns
bury, $685. Colchester, $13S; Rockingham
S129; Montpelier, Sos; Springfield, S105
Brandon, $40; Swanton, $l03; Middlebury
$10l.
THE new Brooks library building at Brat
tleboro was formally dedicated last Weel